Chapter 72: Terrifying Immortality

Now, as long as not all of his internal organs are simultaneously grievously wounded or vanish at once, even a single one being lost would no longer be a fatal wound for him.

Of course, this excludes the heart — it refers to the other organs.

In other words, if he wanted to now, he could at any time pull out his organs other than the heart and not die — provided he had enough energy, of course!

As long as he had energy, and no more than two organs were pulled out at once, he could fully regenerate them.

During this process he might lose most of his strength and be unable to fight back, but at the very least he could still hold on long enough to make his escape.

Still, this was already exaggerated enough — because if such a day truly came, and some being could break through his layers of defense to pull out his organs, then one or two made little difference to him.

Whether he ran or not at that point probably wouldn't matter; in most cases, this merely gave him an enormous safeguard for his survival, allowing him to ignore organ damage to a certain extent.

As for the surface flesh and blood, that was even more outrageous — now he could already see with his own eyes the granulation tissue growing and healing on his wounds.

From before, when a small wound took a day to heal, now it took less than half a day.

In a certain sense, he could already be said to possess a preliminary immortality!

Of course, this was only for the healing of small wounds.

The rest was merely his guess.

Because he still didn't dare use his own life for experiments — it was simply a feeling his body gave him, like how he knew whether he was hungry.

While pondering, Baichuan also drew near the prey he had stunned with his electric current.

Without hesitation, he simply opened his mouth wide and gulped down these small fish and shrimp, then closed his mouth and quickly expelled the seawater inside.

Only then did Baichuan swallow the mouthful of food.

Just like that, he gulped down these little shrimp mouthful after mouthful, and before long he had eaten them all clean.

He smacked his lips in satisfaction, then came to the main event of this time.

A big strange fish hiding in the crevice of a coral reef… sorry, please forgive Baichuan for not recognizing what kind of fish this was.

But it was fine — once his panel scanned out its ability model, he would know.

He examined for a while this big fish that he didn't know was playing dead or truly stunned by electricity, then suddenly thrust out a sharp claw and viciously tore open its belly.

Instantly, blood spread out into a haze of blood, and within it the strange fish twitched and struggled once.

Baichuan was amused at this — looks like it was trying to play dead to ambush him; it probably thought it had run into some electric ray or Electric Eel of the sea.

Too bad it was wrong.

And the price was death!

Baichuan no longer hesitated, and in a few bites ate it down; during the eating he even tore part of the fish flesh into tiny shreds, causing a great deal of blood to spread.

Feeling his stomach already seven or eight tenths full, Baichuan was filled with satisfaction.

Ever since coming to the sea, he felt he had grown lazy — at a glance there were heaps of big fish and small fish.

At first he had been full of ambition, chasing after big fish, but his swimming speed was too slow — or rather, the big fish were too fast — and chasing them wasted too much time.

Compared to the energy expended, the meager flesh and blood of big fish wasn't nearly enough to compensate; every day he could barely balance income and expenditure.

Until he gave up chasing big fish and turned his gaze to those small fish he had previously disdained to eat, thinking they were only good for picking teeth.

Suddenly he discovered a whole new world.

His little electric current, if dispersed in the sea, was completely insufficient as an attack against the big fish he wanted to chase — which was also why he had wasted most of his time before.

But ever since he started using his electric current to shock small fish, he found that his current was completely enough!

Relying on his current ability, he could eat small fish to his fill without wasting much energy.

At this Baichuan couldn't help sighing — no wonder even creatures as huge as blue whales fed on small fish and shrimp rather than those large fish.

Indeed, in this resource-rich ocean, fixating on those few big fish was a complete waste of energy.

However, this lazy, slothful sort of life now seemed it would need to be paused.

Because the creatures in this stretch of sea were almost all scared off by him.

Think about it — anyone who has someone constantly shocking and eating fish in great quantities in the water, day after day.

Even if this region's resources were ever so abundant, they couldn't withstand his plundering like this.

Moreover, compared to small fish and shrimp with no special abilities, he still wanted some powerful creatures that possessed special abilities.

After all, his panel determined that if he wanted to grow stronger, he had to obtain creatures with powerful abilities.

Before, he had merely wanted to stockpile more points, preparing for his future evolution.

Beyond that, it was to prepare for advancing into deeper waters.

After all, without faster swimming speed, how could he compete with the Banzhu of those deep-sea domains?

Baichuan gazed with deep eyes toward his side — there lay the deeper ocean depths.

Just then, a faint but utterly familiar tremor in the water current appeared beside him.

Baichuan, startled awake and brought back to himself, turned his head to look, muttering in his heart: It's come?

That's right — when he had eaten that strange fish just now, he had done so deliberately.

Of course, it was to attract a certain creature in the sea.

Before long, a shadow slowly emerged in his field of vision, swimming toward him unhurriedly.

The electric current sensing Baichuan had been continuously releasing to perceive his surroundings since entering the ocean immediately told him who the newcomer was.

A shark — and most likely a whitetip reef shark!

Of course, even if the electric current sensing hadn't told him, he would still have known.

Because this wasn't the first time he had run into this fellow during this period.

And this time, it was he who had deliberately created a large amount of blood to lure it in.

The whitetip reef shark, also known as the white-edged fin white-eye shark, is a species of shark that likes to live near dark reefs far from shore.

Its arrival now was exactly what Baichuan had long been looking forward to.

And from the looks of it, it was alone — seems his luck had finally turned!

Baichuan was so moved at this moment he almost cried.

One whole beast — it really is too rare!

He seemed to recall once more the experiences from the very beginning of this month.

After he entered the sea, he discovered his swimming speed was still too slow. A mere Youyong LV2 was still far too slow — the speed was just like an old jalopy.

Having once experienced riding the river's current, he simply couldn't stand it on the spot.

So for that reason, he set his sights on sharks — after all, sharks as a species do swim quite fast.

But unexpectedly, no matter how many times he used fresh blood to lure these sharks known as "wolves of the sea," they did come, but why was it that every single time he attracted a whole swarm of them?

Who can tell him — do these sharks all hunt in packs?

That shouldn't be the case.

Maybe his luck has been a bit off lately; every time he lured them, it was a whole group, and in the end he could only helplessly choose to give up.

(End of this chapter)